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Dr. Archer Mellott 🍉

@drarcheratkins

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I do handstands.🤸🏼‍♀️
I climb mountains. ⛰️
I study Arabic. م
I travel. ✈️
I write. 📝
I'm autistic, bendy, & full of life!

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📍handstand practice in El Chorro, Spain, where I saw a big herd of wild Spanish boars 🐗 by @drarcheratkins

📍 Volubilis, Morocco. An ancient Roman city in Morocco that was built in the 3rd century BC.

#volubilis #morocco #exploremorocco #maghreb #unesco by @drarcheratkins

You have known so much pain, but look at you, still standing in the center of your own aliveness with your arms wide open. You never closed down. Your stayed in your aliveness, even when it hurt, and as a result, you got ALL THIS JOY AND BEAUTY. 🦄

#reddress
#summit
#healing
#mountains
#mountaintherapy by @drarcheratkins

The last slide is the best lesson of the summer. 😂

morning coffee outside
wisdom from summer 2026

Every day, I take my coffee outside in my bare feet. It is part of my sacred morning routine. 🪄

I love collating my morning coffee thoughts according to the seasons. I can't put them all here, so I go through and reflect on the best ones. Which slide speaks to you the most?

#coffeeoutside
#growthmindset
#drarcherwords
#morningroutine
#innerhealing by @drarcheratkins

upside down on a summit in Africa!

📍 Raf Raf Tunisia

filmed by Omar! how'd he do? I complained about the first clip because he cut off my foot. 😂

p.s. this was filmed on my 43 birthday

#adventureswithomar
#rafraf
#tunisia
#upsidedowninafrica by @drarcheratkins

from Sunday's adventure. I hiked to the summit while fasting and it felt amazing. No parasympathetic mode slowing me down with digestion! Why didn't I do this sooner!? So many 5am mountaineering breakfasts that made me feel so 🤢 when in reality I just didn't need to eat.

in the video I say that I owe people handstand karma but what I mean is that I owe the universe a lot of photos. if a stranger asks me to take their photo, like a lady did here, I will jump up and down at the opportunity! 🙌

#seattle
#seattlehikes
#handstands
#poopoopoint by @drarcheratkins

learning darija brought me so much goodness, joy, and laughter. that's what learning a new language does. it brings you so much more than the language itself. may I keep learning and laughing all the days of my life. 🙏

#darija #darijaschwiya by @drarcheratkins

dear little archie in morocco,

you are never alone. even when you solo travel. you will find friends who love you. they will be happy to take your handstand photos & videos. you do not need to hire a male photographer for $300 to take photos and videos of you when you have the diarrhea from hell. you will take immodium, charcoal, pepto bismol, and s. boulardii to get through the photoshoot without shitting your neon green pants. you will feel like shit during the photoshoot because you have a severe gastrointestinal illness that will require two antibiotics to fix. when you go back to america you will chase down the photographer man for more than 2 months. you will beg him for your photos & videos. he will finally give you the unedited photos on a free transfer site that takes an entire day to download them. he will never edit them. he will never give you the videos. but most of all, he will never take accountability for everything he did wrong, which is the very thing that will bother you the most. you will be able to let go of this man when you understand that a tiny voice inside you told you to cancel the shoot. that you were too sick to do it. but you charged through, ignoring your body, a past pattern for you. you were afraid of being in trouble with him for a late cancelation. you didn't want to disappoint. but in the end, the photographer wronged you more than a cancelation would have ever wronged him. that tiny voice is your superpower. your body knew. she always does.

love,

your dear soul by @drarcheratkins

that inner healing glow up has made an appearance

#innerhealing #forties #longhair #authenticself #selflove by @drarcheratkins

I love seeing you.

#authenticself #backbend #healing #mountains #selflove by @drarcheratkins

Meet Johnny the Bobcat. My mom's boyfriend. They live together in The Skook and just got a Blue Heeler puppy from the tattoo artist who did his bobcat tattoo.

[video of Johnny the Bobcat talking about his new blue heeler puppy Roo Roo. Johnny the Bobcat is sitting on a bench in NYC with a root beer float in his hand from @vanleeuwenicecream]

#johnnythebobcat
#bobcat
#puppystory
#interview
#meetthecharacters by @drarcheratkins

stole a boat in nyc

[tour of new york city by boat. going under the brooklyn bridge was my favorite part!]

#nyc #newyorkcity by @drarcheratkins